What is?

[Hollyhandi]

A coupon train?

[Darlene]

It's a mail train with a group of people who want to trade coupons. First person sets it up (usually a big mailing envelope with smaller envelopes labeled dairy, pets etc. inside) and sends it to the next person on the train. They take out what they want and add some to replace what they took and around & around it goes. choochoo

[Kimberlina]

In the train I started last year, we didn't use separate envelopes because we didn't want to pay extra. There just had to be at least 50 coupons in the train, more if you put in ones with short-dates (less than 30 days till exp.) Each person was resposible for taking out those that were expired or would expire in the next day or so (before they got to the next person.) Rebate forms could also be included, and no l very local or internet coupons, since a lot of places don't accept them.

It was fun, and I would like to get into another one at some point, but maybe with people a little closer this time. I had two envelopes going in my other one, but they were traveling all over the country (3 est coast, 1 texas, and one washington stop) so it took a while for them to get around. The bad thing about ones from all over the country is that many of the coupons are for items only available in one part of the country or the other.